2014-11-14T00:24:11-07:00 2013-12-31 990 2013-01-01 272637286 PANAH CHARITY FOUNDATION PANA 5107922629 4119 Tamayo Street Fremont CA 94536 Rokhshana Benish President 5107922629 2014-11-12 2013 2015-11-30 17:44:51Z Rokhshana Benish 4119 Tamayo Street Fremont CA 94536 287890 0 X panahcharity.org X 2010 CA Panah is a CHARITABLE non-profit foundation helping poor and needy families mostly in Afghanistan. Currently nine million people are living below the poverty level in Afghanistan. Panah Charity's main mission is to help the needy families to become self-sufficient and stand on their own feet. Panah is creating job opportunities for needy women and men and providing them the small tools they need to work. Panah also provides humanitarian aid to starving families and children such as food supplies, heating supplies during the winter season, and clothing to children. Panah also places makeshift tents for homeless families of young children. This foundation also creates water wells in very dry and poor villages in Afghanistan to provide clean drinking water to needy people and children. 0 0 0 0 0 0 235068 287890 0 0 0 0 0 0 235068 287890 151606 185091 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 13629 39948 165235 225039 69833 62851 121747 184598 0 0 121747 184598 X Panah is a CHARITABLE non-profit foundation with active 501c (3) status. This charity was formed in 2010 to help poor and homeless families. Since 2010 Panah Charity has been helping the war-torn country of Afghanistan. Panah Charity's mission in Afghanistan is to help poor families to find work and stand on their own feet via Panah Charity's self-sufficiency programs. Panah Charity also builds water wells in poor and very dry villages in Afghanistan and delivers basic food supplies and heating supplies to the families of young children in order for them to survive. 0 0 47051 55000 Panah Charity provided heating supplies to displaced and homeless families during the freezing winter season of 2013 in Afghanistan. These families are living below the poverty level in Afghanistan and in each family there are at least 7-8 family members including young children. Winter is a deadly season for poor young children in Afghanistan. In winter 2013 Panah Charity was able to deliver heating supplies to 1,815 poor families and this helped over 12,500 individuals. Total expense of $47,045 for winter expense includes $12,000 that was used for purchasing warm clothing for children and blankets for widows. 68386 75000 Panah Charity provided basic food supplies to 1,045 poor and homeless families in Afghanistan in 2013. These are families with young children living below the poverty level. Panah Charity provided flour, rice, cooking oil, tea, sugar, onion, and potato. This humanitarian aid provided food to 7,315 individuals enough for a whole month. Also, Panah Charity in Eid celebration provided sheep meat to thousands of poor people who can't afford to eat meat on a regular basis. The total cost of serving meat to families and children was $14,060 that is included in the total. 30743 32000 In 2013 Panah Charity built 16 water wells in 16 different villages and locations where poor and homeless families are living. In those locations children had to walk miles to bring drinking water from other water wells and this was very difficult particularly during the summer and winter seasons. By building these water wells Panah Charity helped thousands of needy families and also saved children from transportation of water in buckets from miles away. 38911 50000 Panah Charity built a large vocational workshop in Qala Waheed and five other small workshops in different locations in Afghanistan as part of the self-sufficiency programs of this foundation. In these workshop needy women (mostly widows) are learning how to create hand made clothing. By selling the hand made products, they make money and their children. In some workshops the women are making Jam and Cookies. Creating these type of vocational workshops help groups of poor women to stand on their feet and become self-sufficient. Panah Charity is working toward expanding these type of self-sufficiency programs in Afghanistan. 38911 0 50000 185091 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 X 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 1 1 1 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 CA X Rokhshana Benish 5107922629 4119 Tamayo Street Fremont CA 94536 X Rokhshana Benish Presiden / Founder 32 X 0 0 0 Durrana Rahimi Vice President 5 0 X 0 0 0 Jasmine Nejat Secretary 5 0 X 0 0 0 Nader Nafey Agent in Afghanistan 25 0 X 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 287890 0 287890 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 287890 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 185091 185091 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3888 0 3888 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 8600 0 8600 0 20990 20990 3050 3050 3420 3420 225039 185091 39948 0 121747 184598 121747 184598 0 0 X 121747 184598 0 0 0 0 121747 184598 121747 184598 62851 0 0 0 0 0 X 0 0 0 X 46179 58180 235063 287890 627312 0 46179 58180 235063 287890 627312 627312 627312 1 1 X RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED 287890 0 0 0 0 0 287890 0 0 0 287890 225039 0 0 0 0 0 225039 0 0 0 225039 South Asia 1 1 Program Services Panah Charity Foundation maintains an office in Kabul, Afghanistan. In that country over 9 million people (1/3 of the population) including children are living below the poverty level. Panah Charity helps poor and needy families by helping them with food supplies, heating supplies, clothing for children, self-sufficiency programs, vocational workshops for widows, . . . etc. Each program service is described in detail in form 990. Schedule F, Part I, Line 3 - Panah Charity maintains cash accounting method. The book of the charity was reconcilled weekly throughout the year 2013 and it was always balanced to the penny. The president of the charity, Rokhshana Benish who is maintaining the financials of the charity has over 31 years of experience in Finance and Book Keeping. She has developed a very detail financials system for Panah Charity which is very helpful! 185091 1 1 185091 0 0 0 0 1 0 Schedule F, Part I, Line 3 Panah Charity Foundation has a branch and maintains an office in Kabul, Afghanistan. The permission to open up a branch is obtained from US Department of States in Washington DC. From that branch office Panah Charity helps families who are living below the poverty level with very basic needs such as food supplies, clothing, heating supplies in the winter season, and a few other humanitarian aids. Panah Charity in Afghanistan also creates water wells in poor locations, creates vocational workshops to teach poor women (mostly widows) how to work, and creates work opportunities for needy women and men to become self-sufficient and stand on their feet. In 2013 Panah had an agent there who was helping with program service and a group of volunteers. The president of Panah Charity monitors very carefully the fund that the charity transfers to its branch in Afghanistan. She makes sure that every dollar was directed toward the charity programs that Panah Foundation is supporting in that region. Form 990, Part III, Line 2 In 2013 Panah Charity established vocational workshops in Afghanistan for poor and needy women (mostly widows). In these vocational workshops Panah Charity teaches the women how to work and make money to feed their children and survive. Also, in the vocational workshops Panah Charity teaches reading and writing to poor women. This is a great program and helps poor women to stand on their own feet and become self-sufficient. Form 990, Part VI, Section A, Line 2 The Founder of the organization and the Vice President of the organization are related to each other and they both work for this charity as volunteers. Form 990, Part VI, Section B, Line 11b The President discusses form 990 in the meetings with officers in US and agent of the charity in Afghanistan. Form 990, Part VI, Section B, Line 12c The organization completely performs according to the policies and regulations of 501c(3) of non profit organization. The founder who is also the president of the organization is coming with an extensive finance and management background and she reviews the performance of the organization every step through in both, US and branch in Afghanistan. She obtains and reviews regularly all records, bills, invoices, and other supporting documents from the branch office in Afghanistan to assure accuracy of the financials. Form 990, Part VI, Section C, Line 19 The organization can provide to the public upon request. The organization has extension until 11/15/2014 to submit the return and this return will be submitted on 11/13/14. It will not be late. Thank you for the extension provided.